Timothy (as always)
speaks much sense.
Until the agitators came along then there was a single thread which served its purpose and provided whatever people wanted it to. I do agree, their opinion is as valid as anyone elses, however if we all attacked individual threads just because we didn't like the subject, or the prose, or the person, or whatever .... then PPRuNe would already need yet another new server. Alas I don't have a spare few hours to read each and every post of antaganists to see if I agree with all their views and threads to allow me to start my own individual campaigns against things they say which I personally may not like or agree with. And I hope no one else does either. There really is life out there
There is NO compunction to read ANY thread on PPRuNe if you don't want to. That's the bottom line. If you don't agree with a viewpoint or argument made by someone then you are of course free to argue against that ... but not the person, their style, or format, or content of the thread (unless it breaches PPRuNe rules and you can 'Report this thread to a Moderator' using the link supplied).
Fan clubs on either side are quite frankly infantile. This is not a popularity site. If people want to get personal and fight for their 'champion/ess' then take it offline and do it by PM or email.
Similarly, anyone who gives us the old 'remove that thread or we leave' routine will not find us stopping them .... leaving that is. Apart from Danny and PPRuNe Towers, no one of us is bigger than the site and it won't be held to ransom, as several posters in other areas have already discovered.
The whole Admin team is at the start of a major rethink of all things PPRuNe. An attempt to get the site back to the professional and aviation emphasis for which it is intended. This may end up with some winners and some losers. Which you become is up to you, your conduct, and the suitability of the subject matter which you post to the site.
There is a Pink Headsets thread. We know the finite life of it. We all know where it is and we all know people can choose (or not) to read it. Anything else relating to that thread which is not actually on it is a distraction.
As I said on the thread itself .. anyone who wishes to be thread banned and thus not even be given the choice to click on it can PM me and I will oblige.
Out.